Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Voting Catholic in 2024

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International, November 4, 2024

“The people are called on to take an always larger part in the public life of the nation. This participation brings with it grave responsibilities. Hence the necessity for the faithful to have clear, solid, precise knowledge of their duties in the moral and religious domain with respect to their exercise of their civil rights, and in particular of the right to vote.” 

― Venerable Pope Pius XII, Discourse to Italian Catholic Action

As we cast ballots for the 47^th president of the United States and elect people to fill various federal, state, and local positions, it is time once more to remind ourselves just how high the stakes of this election are and what our duties are as Catholic citizens.

The results of Tuesday’s elections will impact every level of our society – from legislation, to judges, to the educational system, foreign policy, health care, and so much more. And though our vote is only one among millions, it nevertheless remains true that the accumulated weight of those millions of votes determines, in crucial ways, the future our country will take. This has never been truer than today, when there hangs in the balance grave moral and social issues: the status of marriage, the family, rights of parents, rights of conscience, religious freedom, and respect for human life itself. …

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